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06-15-2017, 10:53 AM #1
CNN files lawsuit seeking Comey's Trump memos
CNN files lawsuit seeking Comey's Trump memos
By Gregory Wallace
Updated 10:40 AM ET
Thu June 15, 2017
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Lawsuit seeks FBI to turn over memos from Comey regarding meetings with Trump
The records are not classified, Comey said last week
Washington (CNN)In federal court Thursday, CNN filed a lawsuit seeking to force the FBI to turn over former director James Comey's memos documenting his conversations with President Donald Trump.
Comey described the meetings and his note-taking in detail last week while testifying before the Senate intelligence committee.
Despite high public interest in the content of the memos, Comey's testimony that the records are not classified and a ruling from the Justice Department that the FBI should expedite CNN's FOIA request for the memos, the FBI has not provided either the documents or a reason to withhold them, according to the lawsuit filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia.
That constitutes a violation of the federal Freedom of Information Act, the lawsuit alleges. CNN asked the court to require the agency release the documents "unredacted, and without further delay."
Before he was fired, Comey was overseeing the investigation into whether members of Trump's campaign team participated in Russian interference with the 2016 presidential election.
In riveting testimony last week, Comey detailed how prior to the firing, Trump invited and corralled him into a series of private meetings. He said the conversations were uncomfortable enough that he documented them in a series of nine memos initially distributed to only a small circle of FBI colleagues.
The memos, he said, are evidence that Trump urged him to end one strand of the investigation involving Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn, pledge loyalty to the President and state publicly that the FBI was not investigating Trump himself.
Comey rejected those requests and the investigation continued. Trump has denied several of Comey's claims, and his lawyer criticized what he called attempts to "undermine this administration with selective and illegal leaks of classified information and privileged communications."
After details of one memo were made public by The New York Times, Comey told Congress that he was responsible for the disclosure. He said he provided one of the documents to a friend and requested the details be shared with the media.
Comey testified that he hoped the news would "prompt the appointment of a special counsel," which indeed happened several days later.
He said his copies are now in the possession of the special prosecutor, Robert Mueller, and his friend said he returned his copy to the FBI.
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06-15-2017, 10:57 AM #2
Wow. The FBI is stonewalling CNN's FOIA request. Could it be the FBI doesn't have the "memos", because they were written AFTER Comey was fired and are NOT extemporaneous (without preparation) or contemporaneous (same time period)? Comey ain't right. There's something very wrong with him.
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